New single: In A Hurry

The second song that Paul McCartney released today, November 22, is In A Hurry and in no way comparable to the other new track Home Tonight. Where Home Tonight is primarily a pop song with a fairly traditional structure, In A Hurry is much more interesting in composition. It wouldn’t surprise me if the song is the result of two merged songs; a method that we often encounter at Sir Paul.

Read also Part One: Home Tonight

In A Hurry starts with a light touch, with an up-tempo harpsichord and a beautiful melodic bass, subtly supported by a xylophone. The song tells about a woman / girl (perhaps inspired by a (grand) daughter?) who is always in a hurry. At first you think you are dealing with a McCartney ballad about fictional people as he has written more; songs like Eleanor Rigby, or, more recently, Mr. Bellamy. But with the chorus, In A Hurry makes a totally unexpected twist and the ballad then turns into a party song: It's never too late to celebrate, the part of the song that I think may be originally a separate song.




The outro of In A Hurry is in my opinion magnificent. It starts with a whooping guitar solo to feast on that continues while the backing vocals keep repeating the line "It's Never Too Late To Celebrate". The solo is followed by a sound collage from the audience during a McCartney concert, supported by a tasteful violin, after which a sax solo comes in and continues until the end of the song. Although ending, after a break of roughly three seconds, In A Hurry gets another brief continuation.

In A Hurry and Home Tonight are remnants of the Egypt Station recording sessions. At the release of this album last year, Producer Greg Kurstin already indicated that a large number of songs did not end up on the album that were not inferior to the tracks that did make it. He did not exaggerate, some of the bonus tracks are just amazing and deserved to be on an album. And also these two new songs would not have been out of place on Egypt Station. 

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Listen to In A Hurry:

Lyrics:

One, two, three, four!

She was always in a hurry
Never took the time to look around
She was always one to worry and fret
Staring at the ground

Every minute, she'd be rushing
Someone always breathing down her neck
Felt like everyone was pushing her down
Keeping her in check

How could she leave? She's gotta stay
Somebody has to sit and wait
Deep in a dream, she hears a voice
"It's not too late to celebrate"

Uncontrollable laughter (not too late to celebrate)
'Round and 'round in her head (no one said you've got to wait)
This is what she was after (not too late to celebrate)
Not too late, not too late

It's never too late to celebrate

No one said you've got to wait
Allow me to congratulate you, baby
Yeah, yeah

It's never too late to celebrate
And no one said you had to wait
Allow me to congratulate you, baby

Never too late to celebrate
Never too late to celebrate
Never too late to celebrate
Never too late, never too late

Never too late to celebrate
Never too late to celebrate
Never too late to celebrate
Never too late, never too late

Now she doesn't have to hurry
She can do exactly what she wants
Ask her why she doesn't worry or fret
This is her response:




Uncontrollable laughter
'Round and 'round in her head
This is what she was after
Not too late, not too late

It's never too late to celebrate
No one said you've gotta wait
Allow me to congratulate you, baby
Yeah

It's never too late to celebrate
Allow me to congratulate
It's never too late to celebrate you, baby

Never too late to celebrate
Never too late to celebrate
Never too late to celebrate
Never too late, never too late

Never too late to celebrate
Never too late to celebrate
Never too late to celebrate
Never too late, never too late
etc

André Homan

André Homan is a Dutch writer and journalist.

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